RyanD
Active Member
Top screen all gone now.
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MetroMan
Senior Member
This was the building on Monday:
thettctransitfanatic
Senior Member
This was the building on Monday:
Wow. Are they finally trying to get rid of the Times Square down there?
kotsy
Senior Member
Since they're upgrading to more square footage of video screens then I'd say they're getting closer to Times Square.
thettctransitfanatic
Senior Member
Oh. I thought they were trying to get rid of it based on the photos. Looks like its getting worse!
Hamiltonian
Active Member
I would argue that the large curving display gives off more of a Piccadilly Circus vibe. ?
kotsy
Senior Member
A few video screens and billboards are being replaced with one massive curved video screen. They are currently in the uninstall old screens & billboards phase.
isaidso
Senior Member
Well considering this part of Toronto has long been chock full of neon, billboards, and over the top commercialism it's just morphing into a better version of itself. The assumption that Toronto is just trying to be some place else gets very tiring.
I suppose people wouldn't believe me if I told them that New York's Macy's Day Parade got its start because they wanted a parade just like that parade they have in Toronto (Santa Claus Parade). That's true yet you won't hear New Yorkers describe it as New York's version of the Santa Claus parade now would you? Rock bottom self esteem is, by far, the most irritating thing about Toronto.
I suppose people wouldn't believe me if I told them that New York's Macy's Day Parade got its start because they wanted a parade just like that parade they have in Toronto (Santa Claus Parade). That's true yet you won't hear New Yorkers describe it as New York's version of the Santa Claus parade now would you? Rock bottom self esteem is, by far, the most irritating thing about Toronto.
I am so sick of Toronto using electricity! Times Square is all electrically powered signs, we should leave that to them! It's time that we stood on our own and stuck with what we know: maple! Our signs should be constructed with home-grown 100% Canadian maple, hand-sawed by plaid be-shirted lumberjacks and burnished to perfection by an army of beaver-fur be-coated Canadiennes. Meanwhile, don't get me started on the fountains at Yonge Dundas Square (water is so Rome-wannabe) which should flow and froth with unending imperial gallons of maple sap… and when you want a little something to eat, Blaze Pizza's one offering should be maple taffy on a crushed Victorian red brick crust (binding agent: maple syrup) from the heritage stock of homes we're demolishing.
Now that would be Toronto!!!
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Now that would be Toronto!!!
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AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
Honestly though, what have NYC (or lord forbid, London) done to deserve comparison to Dundas Square?
Just in case it escaped anyone - I don't mean it as a compliment.
AoD
Just in case it escaped anyone - I don't mean it as a compliment.
AoD
Tuscani01
Senior Member
While we're at it... ditch the private security at Dundas Square and replace it with mounties.
Northern Light
Superstar
Or no security.............. LOL
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
TrickyRicky
Senior Member
Just have the security wear Mountie costumes. It would become, and I’m not even joking, one of the most photographed things in the city
Northern Light
Superstar
I enjoyed the humour!
But personally, I just can't stand advertising everywhere; I find and have always found Times Square ugly as sin; I can't understand why anyone would want to emulate anything about it, badly, or well.
10 Dundas is an eyesore.
No change in the nature of the ads on it will fix that.
But I appreciate that others have less refined taste than I
That's what makes the world interesting.